21 Facts About Ptolemy Epigonos

Ptolemy Epigonos was a Greek Prince from Asia Minor who was of Macedonian and Thessalian descent.

Ptolemy Epigonos's paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella, a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon and his paternal grandmother was an unnamed woman perhaps named Arsinoe.

Ptolemy Epigonos's mother Arsinoe II, was a Ptolemaic princess who married his father as his third wife and married him as her first husband.

Ptolemy Epigonos was a daughter born to Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt and was a sister to the Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

Ptolemy Epigonos I was another of the Diadochi who later founded the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt and Berenice I was the great-niece of the powerful regent Antipater.

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Ptolemy Epigonos was born and raised in Ephesus, which was renamed for a time Arsinoea after his mother.

Ptolemy Epigonos Keraunos lived in his father Lysimachus' kingdom as a political exile and prior to marrying his mother had murdered Seleucus I in order to gain the power of his former protector and then rushed to Lysimachia where he had himself acclaimed king by the Macedonian army.

Union between Arsinoe II and Ptolemy Epigonos Keraunos was purely political as they both claimed the Macedonian, Thracian thrones and by the time of Ptolemy Epigonos father's death his power extended to southern Greece.

Ptolemy Epigonos is mentioned as one of the claimants in the period of anarchy following the reign of Sosthenes.

Probably at the instigation of Arsinoe II, charges of conspiring to assassinate Ptolemy II were soon brought against Arsinoe I Ptolemy II had convicted Arsinoe I of plotting against him.

Ptolemy Epigonos II had exiled Arsinoe I to Coptos in southern Egypt.

Ptolemy Epigonos is shown as an adult on the Great Mendes Stela, where he is depicted wearing the pharaoh's war crown, which is suggested that Ptolemy Epigonos is playing an active role in court life and later in military affairs.

Ptolemy Epigonos II terminated Ptolemy Epigonos's co-regency with him and made him renounce any claims he had to Egyptian throne.

The evidence below reveals that Ptolemy Epigonos was in a semi-autonomous position typical of the Hellenistic dynasts:.

Ptolemy Epigonos had an extraordinary degree of autonomy and was loosely under the authority of the Ptolemaic Pharaohs.

Ptolemy Epigonos had achieved substantial influence in Telmessos and in the surrounding local cities in the region.

Ptolemy Epigonos established himself in Telmessos to the extent that he was mentioned in a decree honoring a certain Leimon son of Antipater, who is said to be a philos or friend of Ptolemy, which was mentioned as one of the motivating factors in the decree.

Ptolemy Epigonos changed the payment to the tenth of the produce on apomeira or levies on beams, grain, millet, pulse, sesame, wheat and other crops in Telmessos.

Ptolemy Epigonos levied orchard crops and the use of pasture land, taxies typical of Ptolemaic practices in Egypt.

At the death of Ptolemy Epigonos, he was the last surviving child of the Diadoch Lysimachus.

Identity of Ptolemy Epigonos is perhaps the most confusing and controversial of Ptolemaic genealogy.